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blob
UK /blɒb/ US /blɑb/
noun 7verb 5name 3
Collocations
5ADJ.
bottom, long
VERB + BLOB
added, become, call, loathing
BLOB + NOUN
cancer, jelly
PREP.
in, on, with
ADV.
always, only
Definitions
noun
1
A shapeless or amorphous mass; a vague shape or amount, especially of a liquid or semisolid substance; a clump, group or collection that lacks definite shape.
Only the outermost blob on either side in map 2 displays misalignment.
It was a colourful vase with red and white hoops on the lid, and red bands above and below the main frieze. These bands also carry a metope pattern in white of triple lines and blobs, which can just be distinguished on the photographs.
2
A large cloud of gas.
3
A large cloud of gas.
4
A bubble; a bleb.
5
A small freshwater fish (Cottus bairdii); the miller's thumb.
verb
1
To splash in the form of a blob or blobs.
Bones put the tiny crimson speck between his slides, blobbed a drop of oil on top, and focused the microscope.
[…] a cross has been burned during the night on Wechsler's lawn and a painted KKK blobbed across one wall of his home.
2
To drop a blob or blobs onto; to cover with blobs.
She was beating something in a pail, beating it with her hands; her arms were blobbed with pink froth to the elbows.
Asked to do a mural in the coffee room of the Municipal Museum, Appel responded by blobbing all four walls and the ceiling with brilliant colors […]
3
To fall in the form of a blob or blobs.
Caroline began to separate eggs, cracking them into unbelievably even halves, sliding the gold, round and elastic, from shell to shell, whilst the white hung, heavy, translucent, in thick sheets, and blobbed suddenly into her basin.
2013, Marcus Berkmann, "Blood and gore of the real 'who dunnits'," Review of Silent Witnesses by Nigel McCrery, Daily Mail, 22 August, 2013, http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/books/article-2400118/Blood-gore-real-dunnits-SILENT-WITNESSES-BY-NIGEL-MCCRERY.html […] whether the blood has splashed, or blobbed, or trickled, can reveal whether the victim was killed here or moved afterwards.
4
To spill sauce on oneself while eating.
5
To relax idly and mindlessly; to veg out.
noun
1
Alternative spelling of BLOB.
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Only the outermost blob on either side in map 2 displays misalignment.
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It was a colourful vase with red and white hoops on the lid, and red bands above and below the main frieze. These bands also carry a metope pattern in white of triple lines and blobs, which can just b
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But there, on the very top, is a hollow full of water, with a sandy bottom; with a blob of jelly stuck to the side, and some mussels.
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Bones put the tiny crimson speck between his slides, blobbed a drop of oil on top, and focused the microscope.
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[…] a cross has been burned during the night on Wechsler's lawn and a painted KKK blobbed across one wall of his home.
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She was beating something in a pail, beating it with her hands; her arms were blobbed with pink froth to the elbows.
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